Announcing PowerON BI ConfigMgr Dashboard (1.4)

It’s been a busy couple of months for me on the Power BI front. Following the success of my Power BI SCCM Dashboard (see previous post here), I’m pleased to announce version 1.4! This version is a little different though as its the first version with the PowerON brand and its packed with improvements for the community to use.

It’s been a natural progression with the dashboard and with the great things we’re doing at PowerON on the BI front, we felt it was the right time to improve the dashboard and showcase some of the innovate things we’ve implemented in other system center reports.

With this now coming under the PowerON brand, we’re also adding the option to contact PowerON for more advanced consultancy, customisation and enablement support contracts of the dashboard.

Hopefully you’ll enjoy the update and we’ll be continuing to add improvements over the coming months 🙂

This contains a breakdown of your site workstations/Servers including manufacturer, operating systems, architecture and even chassis type info! The Chassis Type information goes off to a technet page so you may need internet access when initially loading your data.

Workstation Admin

This contains a breakdown of your site workstations admin info additional to the workstation breakdown.

The site admin view queries the configmgr dogs technet post for the latest SCCM release. It also queries the Microsoft support life cycle site and checks for expired or expiring operating systems currently deployed which you will need to address.

Managed Mobile Devices

This view contains summary information on Managed Mobile Devices in ConfigMgr. It allows you to view things like Make and OS version of devices connected.

6. Select the “_Client Information” query under the ConfigMgr and supply any credentials required to access the database.

7. If prompted, Click OK on the encryption support message.

8. Close the Query Editor and load the data

Publishing to the Web

The desktop version of Power BI is free to use and I used this without publishing the report up to the web just to produce a quick report. The data is on this report is not live as its only from the last time you load the data but you can easily reload the information on startup.

For an even better experience, you can publish the file up to the web and create a dashboard. though there can be cost implications but there is a free version. Check on Power BI’s website for further information on what best suits you.

The great thing about publishing is you can utilise the ask a question feature which is awesome!

Power Bi also comes with a mobile app which allows you to access the report from your mobile device anywhere too.

For advanced support, customisations or consultancy contact the PowerON team below:

I found out the problem. It's not a problem but just a mislabel!Where it asks you to enter the "ConfigMgr Server" it's supposed to say SQL Server, so put your sql server/instance and on the next parameter enter the DB name. 🙂